Almost 400,000 people are on social care ‘waiting lists’, care bosses estimate, as they warn of a “rapidly deteriorating” situation for older and disabled people this winter. An estimated 204,241
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As Skills for Care celebrate the official launch of the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set (ASC-WDS) their CEO Oonagh Smyth reflects on the impact that those using the service
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Care home residents are dying alone and their everyday needs are c” because staffing levels are at such a “dangerously low” level, research suggests. People in residential care are being
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Michael Gove has said he will meet Health Secretary Sajid Javid and Boris Johnson this week for “urgent” talks on the recruitment and retention of social care workers. This comes
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The NHS faces a bed-blocking and capacity crisis this winter because of a staff shortage in care homes, ministers have been warned. The Government was told by Conservative MP Mark
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The number of nurses and midwives leaving the professions has risen amid a warning more departures could follow without further efforts to tackle the pressures on both occupations brought on
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Social care staff should be given a bonus to stop them leaving for other jobs, health leaders have said, as they warned the NHS faces the “most difficult winter in
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Nursing leaders have highlighted 10 pressures on health and social care services which they say have created “unsustainable, untenable” conditions. A report from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) said
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The NHS is “on its knees”, leading health experts have warned, as a raft of data for England shows the service buckling under pressure. The King’s Fund health think tank
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Tens of thousands of care home staff who have not had both coronavirus vaccine doses will be unable to legally work in care homes from Thursday as the Government’s mandatory
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